Tarabband med GöteborgsOperans stråkar by Various, lau 27 maí 2023, Frá (2023/2023), Stora scenen, Karlstad, Sweden

Unique live band with influences from North Africa, the Middle East and Europe - parts of the world where they have also reaped enormous success. With the string musicians of the Gothenburg Opera Orchestra. With Nadin Al Khalidi's charismatic and sensitive voice, the universal lyrics in Arabic and the band's unique sound and interplay, Tarabband has a loyal audience in Sweden and abroad, especially in the Middle East. Tarabband's music and Arabic lyrics are based on human encounters and situations that the Iraqi-Egyptian-Swedish singer and lyricist Nadin Al Khalidi has been part of. The texts weave together stories about people and life's destinies that take place in parallel in different corners of the world – in Malmö, in the Jordanian Wadi Rum mountains, in Iraqi Mosul, in Cairo and in Baghdad, where Nadin Al Khalidi was born and grew up. When the musicians of Tarabband come together, they create versatile and touching soundscapes that elegantly frame, retell and amplify these stories. With the newly released studio album Yekhaf (Arabic for Afraid of Me ), Tarabband's music continues to travel the world. Here they are joined by the string section of the Gothenburg Opera Orchestra - musicians who are used to playing everything from modern musicals via contemporary opera to Wagner, Mozart and Puccini. Here they get to show their flexibility and great musicality in a new repertoire.